USS Franklin (1815)
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USS Franklin was a 74-gun ship of the line of the United States Navy. She was named for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.
1820 painting of Franklin (center-right) in New York Bay
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general.
USS Franklin (1815)
…USS Franklin was a 74-gun ship of the line of the United States Navy. She was named for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. Built in 1815 under the supervision of Samuel Humphreys and Charles Penrose she was the first vessel to be laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard…
Portrait by Joseph Duplessis, 1785
An 1881 illustration of Franklin's birthplace on Milk Street in Boston
A May 2008 photograph of Franklin's birthplace in Boston, commemorated with a bust of Franklin atop the building's second-floor façade
La scuola della economia e della morale, an 1825 sketch of Franklin